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The new two-state bill in the House promoted by progressive Congresspeople describes Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” This language prolongs discrimination embodied by the fact that Palestinians have not been permitted to build a university in Nazareth over 40 years of demanding that right, says Jafar Farah.

Tawfīq Zayyād accompanied by Amal and Rābʿa Murqus, the daughters of Nimer Murqus in Rāas an-Nāqūra. Photo from the Digital Archive of the Palestinian Museum. Unlike the author of this academic biography who never met the Palestinian leader Tawfiq Zayyad and only knew of him through the mainly Zionist Hebrew press, I knew Tawfiq Zayyad and respected him since the Nakba. At that life-changing juncture, he was nearly twice my age of eleven years, someone with literary promise, revo...